indurate

英 ['ɪndjʊəreɪt] 美 ['ɪndjʊˌreɪt]

• vt. 使坚固；使硬化
• vi. 硬化；巩固起来
• adj. 硬的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. emotionally hardened;

   "a callous indifference to suffering"
   "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
   

Verb:

1. become fixed or established;

   "indurated customs"
   

2. make hard or harder;

   "The cold hardened the butter"
   

3. become hard or harder;

   "The wax hardened"
   

4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate;

   "He was inured to the cold"
   

经典引文

• It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart.

  出自： H. M. Williams

近反义词

【近义词】

• stony 石头的
• chill (使)变冷
• cake 蛋糕
• harden (使)变硬
• inure (使)习惯
• callous 麻木的
• pachydermatous 厚皮类的